Good evening. On the calendar this weekend:

• Eight Little League World Series games, all broadcast live from Williamsport, PA, on either ESPN, ESPN2, or ABC.
• Nobody 2, starring Bob Odenkirk, and Americana, starring Sydney Sweeney, hit theaters.
• Your 37th wedding of the summer. But look on the Mr. Brightside…it’ll be fall soon.

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Each of the following events happened on August 15. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom!

• A) Henry Ford leaves his position as chief engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company’s main plant to start a little automobile company you may have heard of before.
• B) An Air France Concorde leaves NYC on its way to setting the record for a round-the-world passenger flight: 31 hours, 27 minutes, 49 seconds. The jet travels ~2x the speed of sound, with one champagne-swilling passenger dubbing it “a supersonic party bus.”
• C) The famous palindrome “A man, a plan, a canal: Panama” is made possible as the Panama Canal, an American-built waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, officially opens to ships following ~10 years of work.
• D) A free and independent India is established, thanks to the Indian Independence Movement, led by Mahatma Gandhi, ending ~200 years of British rule.

Hint: You’re *free* to do what you want…but maybe try 3.

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…today’s Conjoiner sequence will take you for a ride. If you’re brave enough to let it, that is👇.

The first clue of today’s sequence is: “In golf, the long club you hit off the tee box”...

Mini

Keep in mind for today’s mini crossword: As long as you correctly place letters like Bee and Gee in the grid, you’ll be stayin’ alive.

• Play today’s puzzle here. If you complete it in one minute and 24 seconds, you’ll take the DONUT HQ crown.

Sudoku

Today’s sudoku is so iconic, Taylor Swift asks it for advice.

• Play today's puzzle here and see what all the hype is about.

Click to play any (or all) of the three GOATWars’ challenges below, then pick the GOAT through a series of head-to-head matchups. This data-driven process was developed to create definitive best-of-all-time lists using a more objective approach than random bloggers just publishing controversial opinions for clicks.

• 🏈 THE GREATEST COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACHES OF ALL TIME
• 🤝 THE GREATEST FANTASY/SCI-FI SIDEKICKS OF ALL TIME
• 👑 THE GREATEST ICONIC WOMEN’S ACCESSORIES OF ALL TIME

🎤 THE GREATEST RAPPERS OF ALL TIME

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2. Snoop Dogg
3. Tupac Shakur

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1. Pelé
2. Lionel Messi
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1. Will Ferrell
2. Tina Fey
3. Kate McKinnon

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A, C, D, B

• A) 1899: Henry Ford leaves his position as chief engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company’s main plant to start a little automobile company you may have heard of before.
• C) 1914: The famous palindrome “A man, a plan, a canal: Panama” is made possible as the Panama Canal, an American-built waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, officially opens to ships following ~10 years of work.
• D) 1947: A free and independent India is established, thanks to the Indian Independence Movement, led by Mahatma Gandhi, ending ~200 years of British rule.
• B) 1995: An Air France Concorde leaves NYC on its way to setting the record for a round-the-world passenger flight: 31 hours, 27 minutes, 49 seconds. The jet travels ~2x the speed of sound, with one champagne-swilling passenger dubbing it “a supersonic party bus.”